This play is thought to represent middle-age in Wilder's unfinished cycle of The Ages of Man.On a point of land jutting into a lake in southern Wisconsin the Carter family enjoys a summer's eve. It's an evening like many others: Nothing happens and everything happens. Each member of the family - sixteen year-old Tom his seventeen-year-old sister Francesca and their parents Mr. and Mrs. Carter - shares different memories somehow connected with their surroundings. These memories color the mo